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Planet is 'way off track' in dealing with climate change, UN report says Doyle Rice USA TODAY March 12, 2020 Story Highlights •
Greenhouse gas concentrations are at the highest levels in 3 million years.
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The report confirmed that 2019 was the second-warmest year on record.
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"We are currently way off track to meeting either the 1.5°C or 2°C targets that the Paris Agreement calls for."
The planet is "way off track" in dealing with climate change, a new United Nations report says, and experts declared that climate change is a far greater threat than the coronavirus. "It is important that all the attention that needs to be given to fight this disease does not distract us from the need to defeat climate change," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, according to Agence France Presse. Although emissions have been reduced with travel curtailed because of the virus, Guterres noted that "we will not fight climate change with a virus. Whilst the disease is expected to be temporary, climate change has been a phenomenon for many years, and and will remain with us for decades and require constant action. "We count the cost in human lives and livelihoods as droughts, wildfires, floods and extreme storms take their deadly toll,” Guterres said. The report confirmed that 2019 was the second-warmest year on record and the past decade the hottest in human history. Last year ended with a global average temperature that was 1.1 degree Celsius above estimated preindustrial levels, second only to the record set in 2016, when a very strong 1